Walk the Talk, Anderson
Bill Proposed Banning Contracts for U.S. Firms That Benefit from Darfur Conflict (click on for source)
Date: Thursday, October 05, 2006By: Vincent Sherry, Howard University News Service
Black congressional leaders and activists are urging the United States to help end genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region by placing economic sanctions on some prominent American companies.
Last week, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and 48 co-sponsors announced a bill that would bar companies benefitting from the conflict in Darfur from receiving federal business contracts.
Meanwhile, activists are calling for a United Nations peacekeeping force to seize control of the volatile situation.
"No one should have to worry that their tax dollars are supporting genocide," Lee said at a Capitol Hill press conference. "The bill is designed to wash the blood off of our federal contracts, protect the rights of states to divest their own public pension funds from companies doing business in Sudan and increase financial pressure on Khartoum to end the genocide in Darfur."
It is estimated that companies associated with the conflict have amassed about $600 billion since 2004, according to data from the government’s General Services Administration (GSA) Procurement Data System. Precise figures cannot be known since no comprehensive list of businesses said to profit from the conflict exists.
The bill, the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act, would require that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission compile such a list. Criteria for making the list would include doing business with Sudan’s government-related entities or selling them military and other equipment that could be used to hurt civilians.
"It is urgent that the international community come together to take decisive action to save the lives of those in Darfur," U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), a co-sponsor of the bill. "I urge my colleagues to adopt, the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act of 2006 and o support the effort to end genocide in Darfur."
The legislation is supported by activists, though many insist stronger action is needed.
As activist organizations mount pressure and the situation further deteriorates, Darfur is beginning to receive more attention from the international community. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice issued an ultimatum to the Sudanese government on accepting a UN peacekeeping force just last week.
"We are not going to sit by and watch this kind of death and destruction continue and we will use whatever tools are necessary, through the U.N., to be able to stop that" Rice said."
In response to concerns, President George W. Bush has appointed a new special envoy to the region, whose task will be to employ diplomacy to end the conflict.
Human rights organization Africa Action still questions U.S. commitment to ending the conflict. In a statement, acting Co-Executive Director Anna Louise Colgan praised President Bush’s recent appointment of a special envoy, but called it insufficient.
"The appointment of a special envoy for Darfur cannot substitute for a U.S. plan of action to break the deadlock and stop the genocide. The credibility of the U.S. on Darfur will be judged by the successful pursuit of a diplomatic offensive ... to overcome [Sudan’s] opposition to a UN force and galvanize Security Council Action to protect the people of Darfur."
A resolution approved by the UN would place 17,000 peacekeepers in the region, according to the organization’s web site. But Sudan’s government has rejected it as a violation of its sovereignty.
This has led activists to call upon the U.S. to pressure Sudan to change its position.
But the U.S. confronts several obstacles in the Security Council and elsewhere. China and Russia, Sudanese allies and trade partners, wield veto power on the council. Plus, Sudan is expected to expand nascent oil operations in coming years. Damage to the U.S. relationship with its government could hurt American prospects for access to that oil. Also, as the Bush administration has often noted, Sudan provides intelligence on terror.
"We acknowledge the U.S. has several competing priorities in having a relationship with the government of Sudan," Diana Duarte, 22, a program associate in Africa Action’s Policy Analysis and Communications Department, told BlackAmericaWeb.com.
"I would really highlight that this is a genocide, and that creates a moral imperative to act. I would also highlight that those factors [sharing intelligence and the U.S. role in ending the Sudanese civil war] are examples of a long-standing relationship with the Sudanese government," she said.
Duarte also notes relations between the U.S. and Russia and China and says these ties can be used to compel their cooperation in allowing UN peacekeepers into Sudan.
Currently, the African Union, an organization of African states, maintains a peacekeeping force of 7,000 in the region. It was just given UN approval to continue its efforts in the region, which have so far failed to end violence. Some activists have criticized the effort as underfunded and lacking in manpower.
The conflict began in Feb. 2003 when Arab militias believed to be supported by the government began attacking the western region known as Darfur, where rebel groups live. The conflict has largely been cast as racial and religious, given the targeting of blacks and Christians. Both groups have historically lacked political power.
Death toll estimates vary wildly, though it’s now believed that at least 200,000 have died since the conflict began. This figure, taken from a scientific study from journal, Science, differs sharply from estimates once putting the toll at just 70,000. Africa Action says 500,000 have died; the UN estimate is 400,000.
Last month, the NAACP joined other humanitarian and civil rights groups at rallies in front of the White House and in New York City as part of a continuing campaign to stop the genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
"In recent months, the media has begun to display the desperation in Darfur to the world community, but the situation continues to worsen," Crispian Kirk, NAACP director for international relations, said in a statement. "We must take action. Without our help, thousands more will suffer and die."
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUDAN. A local report adds some information that 'changes' some of the perspective but can't dismiss it. This is the perspective that seeks to dismiss the problem and dismiss the need for a peacekeeper force.
Darfur Eyewitness (click on for more content)
Dreadful events in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur continue to dominate world headlines.
The conflict in Darfur erupted in February 2003 between local tribes and the Janjaweed, an armed group allegedly backed by Khartoum. The conflict involves control over natural resources. More than 180,000 people have been killed in the conflict and more than 2.2 million have been displaced. ...
... There have been horrible images from Sudan such as rape and destitution. Has it changed since 2002?
In a very strange way, in terms of Darfur, actually malnutrition has gotten better in a lot of places in Darfur since the rebellion, because there’s been access for aid agencies. Many of the aid agencies that left Darfur when the Sudanese government was put on the sanctions list went back in when the emergency was at its peak.
In a very strange way, for a lot of people, aside from the people who are dying as a direct result of the war in a lot of parts of Darfur, when the food supply line can be made possible (the violence does break up the supply line), then the nutrition situation is better.
Khartoum is very different. It’s very difficult to explain, because Sudan is so incredibly big and Khartoum to Darfur is a two-and-a-half to three-hour flight. When you land in the capital, in Khartoum, it’s very disconcerting because you see this very thriving and modern African city. There’s a lot of investment coming into Khartoum, there are coffee shops, restaurants. Then you fly out to Darfur and it’s like going back in time.
The Janjaweed continue to hold many people in Sudan hostage. You have some eyewitness accounts of what’s still happening. Tell us about what you saw.
The situation at the moment is that the Sudanese government is in the middle of a military offensive, an aerial bombardment. In recent weeks they have been moving troops in on the ground.
One of the rebel groups signed a deal with the Sudanese government, so they brought with them the territory that they had under their control in southern Darfur. But in northern Darfur other rebel groups, which didn’t sign the deal, have taken a lot of the territory away from the main rebel group, the SLM. This is where the Sudanese government is concentrating its firepower at the moment. It’s no longer a situation where it’s the deniability of the Janjaweed militias just moving in and doing an offensive on the part of the government. This is now full-scale warfare.
You write “yet another orphan, yet another widow, yet another raped girl, Reeling, you end up too busy fighting for breath to fight the tears like a proper journalist would.” Can you talk about this element – the widow, the orphan, the raped girl – how it still continues in spite of world reaction and the many humanitarian agencies that have come into Darfur.
I think what’s so horrific about Darfur is that every time you go back you hear the exact same story. Two-and-a-half, nearly three years down the line, nothing has changed. I think there can be nothing worse than the death of hope. The first few times I went in, people really saw you as a journalist, as bringing hope that people cared. There was a real innocence that “people in the world can’t possibly know what we’re going through because if they did, it would stop.” I think that’s the most horrible thing about going back to Darfur. You can’t lie to these people any more. You go back to the same places and you see a lot of the same people, because it’s the same people who have been sitting in these makeshift shelters for three years. ...
... It’s an emotional story that continues to unfold out of Darfur. You go there as a reporter, come back and tell your story, as do others. You’ve watched over the years what has or hasn’t happened. What do you think will make the world understand how bad the situation continues to be?
There was a day for solidarity with Darfur, when people were going out on the ground and talking about the need to do something. But people need to understand that there’s a lack of political will.
When you’re standing there and lobbying in the U.N., I really feel that if there were the political will, whether in the U.S. or in the UK, for this to actually happen… it’s just such a mess and it’s such a difficult place to operate in. ...
... Can you provide some statistics on the death toll and the rape toll since the beginning of the war?
Both the death and the rape tolls have gone down in the past year. We were hearing much reduced numbers, but in this last offensive they’ve gone up again. The problem is, it’s so difficult to work. I was actually pulled out by my company the last time I was in. A friend of mine, a local Sudanese journalist, was killed in Darfur. I think that’s the problem, that aid agencies can’t put together definitive figures.
My understanding is that in this recent offensive, over 60,000 have been displaced. That’s just within Darfur and we’re talking about a community that doesn’t really have anywhere else to go. There’s nowhere left to run for them. So if 60,000 people have been displaced, that’s a huge shift and that’s without having any figures for the people who have gone into Chad again, and there’s a war brewing in Chad. There’s just no safe place anymore.
Even when you talk about 60,000 [displaced] and you talk about over 1,000 rapes in this recent offensive, you just don’t know. It could be worse than that, it could be less. There’s just no access, there’s no way to go in and that’s the awful thing – the Sudanese government has achieved impunity because there is no way to independently verify any of the figures we’re hearing.
Courageously, you’ve ventured into war-torn Darfur and you’ve been nominated for several awards for your courage. Are journalists taking the same interest now as they have? Are many still frequenting Darfur in order to report what’s happening?
It’s very, very hard. The last time I was there, my colleagues at the Al-Jazeera bureau in Khartoum, in one week they were attacked four times by Sudanese security. It’s impossible to go in as a foreign journalist because you need a travel permit. You saw recently with the Chicago Tribune journalist and the Serbian envoy that going in through Chad is not only dangerous; now that the Sudanese have repaired relations with the Chadian government, it’s almost impossible. ...
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Friday, October 6, 2006
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
This scandal of the House of Representatives reaches beyond the Capital Dome.
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Foley has opened Pandora's Box. This man has been lusting after young men for years while everyone looked the other way. You aren't going to tell me this is a surprise to Jeb Bush. He and Foley were involved on many issues regarding Missing and Exploited Children.
Florida has a completely horrible record regarding children and attracting pedophiles. This is huge. Years of systematic evasion of law enforcement. I don't know. It seems much larger than just a resignation. It doesn't track well with this level of negligence at all levels of government including Florida government.
It's smells all "W"rong to me.
I want children to be safe, young Pages to be safe. It just seems as though not knowing how demented Foley actually is leaves a large 'gap' in knowing where to turn to begin. The Page Program needs to be in contact 'confidentially' to be sure they aren't having issues. To know that they are doing well or at least not affected by any of this influence.
I am worried. Very worried. Pedophiles, and we don't know whom he covets exactly, (A warrant to search Foley's residence should be conducted.) don't easily resolve their fetishes.
I just don't feel good about this. It's leaves too many unanswered questions. Years of them.
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Anderson, where is George Clooney?
Sweden's PA gains 85% of Congo oil licence
Sweden's PA Resources has agreed to buy ADECO Congo BVI, whose subsidiary ADECO Congo SA owns 85% of an oil production sharing agreement offshore the Republic of Congo, the Oslo-listed energy firm said on Tuesday.ADECO Congo SA holds the stake in the production sharing contract in the offshore block Marine XIV, which is an area of about 265 square km, PA Resources said. The national oil company of Congo, SNPC, holds the remaining 15% interest."Marine XIV lies in shallow water, in the heart of the main producing region of Congo Brazzaville, where adjacent field production is currently around 75 000 barrels of oil per day (bopd)," PA Resources AB said in a statement.PA Resources said earlier exploration on the block made at least one oil discovery, testing at rates of 1 500 bopd."The discovery was estimated by an independent auditor to contain probable reserves of 45-million barrels of oil," it said."Given rig availability our plan is to develop this block as soon as possible," PA Resources Chief Executive Ulrik Jansson said in the statement.
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/eng/news/today/?show=94856
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Deaths in eastern DR Congo attack ITURI,Congo (bbc) -- Fourteen people have been killed in fighting between rebels and government forces in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A local army commander said 12 militiamen and two soldiers were killed during an attack by the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Front (FRPI).
In July three rebel groups in Ituri agreed to a ceasefire ahead of the first round of presidential elections.
The second round is due to take place at the end of October.
United Nations officials had hoped the east would remain quiet ahead of the second round.
"The fighting was very serious and lasted seven hours," General Nsiona Mbuayama told Reuters news agency by phone from near Bunia. "The militia fled in the end, taking some dead, but they left at least 12 bodies."
Some of the worst fighting during DR Congo's conflict has taken place in the north-eastern Ituri region, where local ethnic conflicts have been fuelled by clashes over minerals.
The FRPI militia, led by a man known as Cobra Matata, is one of several groups that has not joined the peace process. President Joseph Kabila and ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba are contesting the run-off polls on 29 October.
The UN is spending $1bn a year on its 17,000-strong peacekeeping mission in DR Congo - the largest in the world.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/4/2006&Cat=4&Num=005
Yeah, a lot of people have died. What are you doing about it beside adding celebrity status to the issue. I mean everyone at CNN ridiculed Daryl Hannah when she stood up for the people over landowners in Southern California citing her millions vs. what she was doing with those millions. So, what do you say, Anderson? What are you doing about this mess.
You want to know why the rebellions? You want to know the people that are making differencess? Look at this.
Church see progress in reporting on Republic of Congo's oil revenues
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0605494.htm
Dieudonne Serge Mounthou, program director of the justice and peace commission of the Diocese of Pointe-Noire, Congo, said that in 1999 his bishops asked: "How can one understand that during the last three decades the frequent discovery and start-up of oil wells, always important, has not been accompanied by any kind of visible sign of economic transformation or rectification of the social situation of our population? Our oil must be an instrument for the life and not the death of our people."
IMAGINE THAT. Catholic Bishops seeking justice for people with programs paid for by the revenues of their governments income from oil. Hm.
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It's easy to state facts about a country. Population. Terrain. Impoverished dominant economy, but, it's really far more interesting to understand HOW it all got so stupid and people end up being rebels in their own country to stop corrupt governments from killing them.
All the African countries are dominated by impoverished agriculture and untouchable oil wealth of government. "Let them eat cake, I suppose."
Congo's economy consists mainly of village agriculture, an urban informal sector or "grey economy" (i.e. unregulated business, commercial, and service activities), and an industrial sector dominated by oil and oil-related services with few linkages to the rest of the economy. Since the 1980s, the oil industry has provided the major share of government revenues and exports, replacing timber production and exports as the principle growth sector. Oil accounts for about 67% of Congo's real gross domestic product (GDP)-about 78% of the government budget-and about 95% of Congo's export earnings.
In spite of its oil wealth, Congo has experienced budgetary shortfalls as a result of public sector expenditures, slumps in world oil prices (1998-1999), and armed conflicts (1997, 1998-1999, and 2002). Congo's business and administrative infrastructure was badly damaged during the recurrent fighting, increasing the petroleum sector's dominance of the economy (since oil production was not directly harmed by the fighting). Rebel attacks and subsequent shut-downs along the CFCO railway, which runs from the port of Pointe Noire to the capital Brazzaville and the interior, severely curtailed the movement of goods and people. Economic activity was further hampered by the fact that over 800,000 Congolese, nearly 30% of the population, fled their homes during the conflicts.
The Congo is the fifth largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Oil accounts for a large portion of Congo's GDP and the majority of the country’s exports. Current proven reserves are estimated to be 1,291 million tonnes of crude and large reserves of associated natural gas exist. Congo is one of the West African countries where Energy Africa is active.
The downstream oil industry is also an important element in the country's economy. The oil industry is predominantly run by foreign companies and is centred on the coastal city of Pointe Noire where the Congolaise de Raffinage (Coraf) operates the 21,000 bpd Pointe Noire refinery. The refinery has been out of commission for four years and has only recently started operating again.
The labour situation in the Congo is sensitive and investors should consider this. Obligations on employers are considered onerous and political restructuring is largely dictated by organised labour. Despite the potential barriers to investment in the Congolese oil industry, however, the sector is experiencing a period of growth.
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CORRUPTION. The world is full of corruption laced in inextricably with Big Oil.
It's far too simple to 'pit' one ethnicity against another as a way to create a warfare that gives the populous a faux sense of 'purpose' in the war leaving the oil companies innocently on the sidelines while they rape the country of oil and wealth while 'the politics of the day' states 'what a shame it is the people of these oil countries just can't get their act together and rather be hate filled of each other.'
THE TRUTH is that villages of impoverished farmers end up being militias to stop the killing of innocents who protest the policies of their corrupt government elite who are the only members of the society that benefit for the paltry royalities by oil companies while even the oil companies pay government police and military to kill protesting villagers.
The sequela that results on a social scale is ethnic hatred, resulting in senseless killing, rapes and basically dehumanized populous who after generations have forgotten what started the hatred in the first place.
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Where is George Clooney? At least he tries to do something about it.
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The local villagers try to create tourism as an appreciation of their land.
http://www.gocongo.com/
CITY TRIP KINSHASA 7 – DAYS
Discover Kinshasa and its surroundings with Go Congo Tour Operator . Kinshasa, the capital of the D.R.Congo, used to be referred to as "Kin La Belle" - meaning "Beautiful Kinshasa". The many years of turmoil have broken down on this image. But slowly and surely, Kinshasa is regaining its splendour. Some of the major sites include the "Grand Marché", the tomb of former President Laurent Kabila, the "Gare Central" and” Symphonie des Arts” for those who like African art, the rapids of Kinsuka just downstream from the city and the Bonobo Reserve, a sanctuary for orphaned Bonobo-monkeys, one of the five Great Apes, and the closest to mankind.
More info
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/299.shtml
These tours aren't necessarily for light weights. They can have their rewards.
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Get your act together Anderson. YOU ARE A LIAR. A PATHETIC pandering liar ! The Janjaweed are Darfur, NOT, Congo. Got to tell these people everything and they are the ones with the contacts, the cameras and the money. They have the contacts because of their cameras and money. They are propagandists with meaningless messages.
Africa: Let's Run Africa's Murderous Old-Style Rulers Out of Town
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610030639.html
What the African Union and the world need to do is take a chance and do something about Darfur that could well be disastrous - attack the Khartoum and Janjaweed forces in Darfur. If the Sudanese government decided to fight it out, then take the war to it in Khartoum.
HELLO? Anyone out there?
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The exposure of gorrillas to humans started with Dian Fossey in 1978 with the bonding that occured between she and Digit.
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International\
http://www.gorillafund.org/
We all know the sad story about Digit. It was wrong but it occurred because the senseless wars don't even esteem people, citizens, yet alone Mountain Gorillas.
Tourism. It works in Kenya.
I am sure you know Kenya, Anderson. Elsa, the lion and the folks that gave Kenya a place in the hearts of millions of Americans so long ago in the movie called "Born Free."
Elsa.
Nice lion everyone loved.
BUT.
I am sure just to be whiney and contrary you'll find some scandal about Elsa's offspring and the Democrats.
http://www.magicalkenya.com/
AAaaahhhhhhhhHHHHH...... these people are so pathetic !
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Blah, blah, blah. The ONLY way Bush can exonerate his party at this point is to personally 'water board' Foley on National television.
enough.
No George Clooney.
Anderson Cooper is a liar and a CHEAT !!!
Foley has opened Pandora's Box. This man has been lusting after young men for years while everyone looked the other way. You aren't going to tell me this is a surprise to Jeb Bush. He and Foley were involved on many issues regarding Missing and Exploited Children.
Florida has a completely horrible record regarding children and attracting pedophiles. This is huge. Years of systematic evasion of law enforcement. I don't know. It seems much larger than just a resignation. It doesn't track well with this level of negligence at all levels of government including Florida government.
It's smells all "W"rong to me.
I want children to be safe, young Pages to be safe. It just seems as though not knowing how demented Foley actually is leaves a large 'gap' in knowing where to turn to begin. The Page Program needs to be in contact 'confidentially' to be sure they aren't having issues. To know that they are doing well or at least not affected by any of this influence.
I am worried. Very worried. Pedophiles, and we don't know whom he covets exactly, (A warrant to search Foley's residence should be conducted.) don't easily resolve their fetishes.
I just don't feel good about this. It's leaves too many unanswered questions. Years of them.
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Anderson, where is George Clooney?
Sweden's PA gains 85% of Congo oil licence
Sweden's PA Resources has agreed to buy ADECO Congo BVI, whose subsidiary ADECO Congo SA owns 85% of an oil production sharing agreement offshore the Republic of Congo, the Oslo-listed energy firm said on Tuesday.ADECO Congo SA holds the stake in the production sharing contract in the offshore block Marine XIV, which is an area of about 265 square km, PA Resources said. The national oil company of Congo, SNPC, holds the remaining 15% interest."Marine XIV lies in shallow water, in the heart of the main producing region of Congo Brazzaville, where adjacent field production is currently around 75 000 barrels of oil per day (bopd)," PA Resources AB said in a statement.PA Resources said earlier exploration on the block made at least one oil discovery, testing at rates of 1 500 bopd."The discovery was estimated by an independent auditor to contain probable reserves of 45-million barrels of oil," it said."Given rig availability our plan is to develop this block as soon as possible," PA Resources Chief Executive Ulrik Jansson said in the statement.
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/eng/news/today/?show=94856
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Deaths in eastern DR Congo attack ITURI,Congo (bbc) -- Fourteen people have been killed in fighting between rebels and government forces in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A local army commander said 12 militiamen and two soldiers were killed during an attack by the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Front (FRPI).
In July three rebel groups in Ituri agreed to a ceasefire ahead of the first round of presidential elections.
The second round is due to take place at the end of October.
United Nations officials had hoped the east would remain quiet ahead of the second round.
"The fighting was very serious and lasted seven hours," General Nsiona Mbuayama told Reuters news agency by phone from near Bunia. "The militia fled in the end, taking some dead, but they left at least 12 bodies."
Some of the worst fighting during DR Congo's conflict has taken place in the north-eastern Ituri region, where local ethnic conflicts have been fuelled by clashes over minerals.
The FRPI militia, led by a man known as Cobra Matata, is one of several groups that has not joined the peace process. President Joseph Kabila and ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba are contesting the run-off polls on 29 October.
The UN is spending $1bn a year on its 17,000-strong peacekeeping mission in DR Congo - the largest in the world.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/4/2006&Cat=4&Num=005
Yeah, a lot of people have died. What are you doing about it beside adding celebrity status to the issue. I mean everyone at CNN ridiculed Daryl Hannah when she stood up for the people over landowners in Southern California citing her millions vs. what she was doing with those millions. So, what do you say, Anderson? What are you doing about this mess.
You want to know why the rebellions? You want to know the people that are making differencess? Look at this.
Church see progress in reporting on Republic of Congo's oil revenues
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0605494.htm
Dieudonne Serge Mounthou, program director of the justice and peace commission of the Diocese of Pointe-Noire, Congo, said that in 1999 his bishops asked: "How can one understand that during the last three decades the frequent discovery and start-up of oil wells, always important, has not been accompanied by any kind of visible sign of economic transformation or rectification of the social situation of our population? Our oil must be an instrument for the life and not the death of our people."
IMAGINE THAT. Catholic Bishops seeking justice for people with programs paid for by the revenues of their governments income from oil. Hm.
1019
commercials
It's easy to state facts about a country. Population. Terrain. Impoverished dominant economy, but, it's really far more interesting to understand HOW it all got so stupid and people end up being rebels in their own country to stop corrupt governments from killing them.
All the African countries are dominated by impoverished agriculture and untouchable oil wealth of government. "Let them eat cake, I suppose."
Congo's economy consists mainly of village agriculture, an urban informal sector or "grey economy" (i.e. unregulated business, commercial, and service activities), and an industrial sector dominated by oil and oil-related services with few linkages to the rest of the economy. Since the 1980s, the oil industry has provided the major share of government revenues and exports, replacing timber production and exports as the principle growth sector. Oil accounts for about 67% of Congo's real gross domestic product (GDP)-about 78% of the government budget-and about 95% of Congo's export earnings.
In spite of its oil wealth, Congo has experienced budgetary shortfalls as a result of public sector expenditures, slumps in world oil prices (1998-1999), and armed conflicts (1997, 1998-1999, and 2002). Congo's business and administrative infrastructure was badly damaged during the recurrent fighting, increasing the petroleum sector's dominance of the economy (since oil production was not directly harmed by the fighting). Rebel attacks and subsequent shut-downs along the CFCO railway, which runs from the port of Pointe Noire to the capital Brazzaville and the interior, severely curtailed the movement of goods and people. Economic activity was further hampered by the fact that over 800,000 Congolese, nearly 30% of the population, fled their homes during the conflicts.
The Congo is the fifth largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Oil accounts for a large portion of Congo's GDP and the majority of the country’s exports. Current proven reserves are estimated to be 1,291 million tonnes of crude and large reserves of associated natural gas exist. Congo is one of the West African countries where Energy Africa is active.
The downstream oil industry is also an important element in the country's economy. The oil industry is predominantly run by foreign companies and is centred on the coastal city of Pointe Noire where the Congolaise de Raffinage (Coraf) operates the 21,000 bpd Pointe Noire refinery. The refinery has been out of commission for four years and has only recently started operating again.
The labour situation in the Congo is sensitive and investors should consider this. Obligations on employers are considered onerous and political restructuring is largely dictated by organised labour. Despite the potential barriers to investment in the Congolese oil industry, however, the sector is experiencing a period of growth.
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CORRUPTION. The world is full of corruption laced in inextricably with Big Oil.
It's far too simple to 'pit' one ethnicity against another as a way to create a warfare that gives the populous a faux sense of 'purpose' in the war leaving the oil companies innocently on the sidelines while they rape the country of oil and wealth while 'the politics of the day' states 'what a shame it is the people of these oil countries just can't get their act together and rather be hate filled of each other.'
THE TRUTH is that villages of impoverished farmers end up being militias to stop the killing of innocents who protest the policies of their corrupt government elite who are the only members of the society that benefit for the paltry royalities by oil companies while even the oil companies pay government police and military to kill protesting villagers.
The sequela that results on a social scale is ethnic hatred, resulting in senseless killing, rapes and basically dehumanized populous who after generations have forgotten what started the hatred in the first place.
1035
Where is George Clooney? At least he tries to do something about it.
1041
The local villagers try to create tourism as an appreciation of their land.
http://www.gocongo.com/
CITY TRIP KINSHASA 7 – DAYS
Discover Kinshasa and its surroundings with Go Congo Tour Operator . Kinshasa, the capital of the D.R.Congo, used to be referred to as "Kin La Belle" - meaning "Beautiful Kinshasa". The many years of turmoil have broken down on this image. But slowly and surely, Kinshasa is regaining its splendour. Some of the major sites include the "Grand Marché", the tomb of former President Laurent Kabila, the "Gare Central" and” Symphonie des Arts” for those who like African art, the rapids of Kinsuka just downstream from the city and the Bonobo Reserve, a sanctuary for orphaned Bonobo-monkeys, one of the five Great Apes, and the closest to mankind.
More info
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/299.shtml
These tours aren't necessarily for light weights. They can have their rewards.
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Get your act together Anderson. YOU ARE A LIAR. A PATHETIC pandering liar ! The Janjaweed are Darfur, NOT, Congo. Got to tell these people everything and they are the ones with the contacts, the cameras and the money. They have the contacts because of their cameras and money. They are propagandists with meaningless messages.
Africa: Let's Run Africa's Murderous Old-Style Rulers Out of Town
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610030639.html
What the African Union and the world need to do is take a chance and do something about Darfur that could well be disastrous - attack the Khartoum and Janjaweed forces in Darfur. If the Sudanese government decided to fight it out, then take the war to it in Khartoum.
HELLO? Anyone out there?
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The exposure of gorrillas to humans started with Dian Fossey in 1978 with the bonding that occured between she and Digit.
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International\
http://www.gorillafund.org/
We all know the sad story about Digit. It was wrong but it occurred because the senseless wars don't even esteem people, citizens, yet alone Mountain Gorillas.
Tourism. It works in Kenya.
I am sure you know Kenya, Anderson. Elsa, the lion and the folks that gave Kenya a place in the hearts of millions of Americans so long ago in the movie called "Born Free."
Elsa.
Nice lion everyone loved.
BUT.
I am sure just to be whiney and contrary you'll find some scandal about Elsa's offspring and the Democrats.
http://www.magicalkenya.com/
AAaaahhhhhhhhHHHHH...... these people are so pathetic !
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Blah, blah, blah. The ONLY way Bush can exonerate his party at this point is to personally 'water board' Foley on National television.
enough.
No George Clooney.
Anderson Cooper is a liar and a CHEAT !!!
Florida is Foley Country
There has been a lot of issues with pedophilia in Florida including negligence of child safety that spawned Jessica's Law.
'Jessica's Law' Eyes Sex Offenders
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/31/earlyshow/main684190.shtml
ARRON at one time reported on Florida's negligence of State Supervised Children
Where is Rilya Wilson?State of Florida loses child, doesn't notice for 16 months
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27646
Fla. can't find 1,000 kids in state custody
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/06/03/florida.child.welfare/
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This is an odd entry about the fascinations of Mr. Foley. Keeping the attention off himself was more than likely a priority.
Letter to Governor Jeb Bush From Congressman Mark Foley
By Mark Foley
CNSNews.com
Information Services
June 20, 2003
(Editor's Note: The following is a letter from Congressman Mark Foley to Florida Governor Jeb Bush asking to shut down a children's nudist camp in Tampa, Fla.)
June 18, 2003
The Honorable Jeb BushGovernor, State of Florida
PL05 Capitol Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
The Honorable Charlie CristAttorney General, State of Florida
PL01
The CapitolTallahassee, FL 32399-1050
Dear Governor Bush and Attorney General Crist:
The New York Times today carried an article I found truly disturbing. Headlined "Old Enough to Make a Lanyard, and to Do It Nude," it is a story about a nudist camp for children - ages 11-18 - at the Lake Como Resort in Land O'Lakes, Florida.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2272370
You have to wonder if he'd ever been there. Did anything ever come of it or was it simply lip service.
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The introduction to this program was about killing and more killing. Death and the like. The Forte' of CNN.
It's not called pedophilia, but necrophilia.
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Here is another Florida pedophile. It must be the hot weather and light clothing that attracts them.
On June 7, 2006, U.S. citizen Frank Parsolano, of Cape Coral, Florida, was returned to the United States from Guatemala to face justice on felony probation violation charges in Lee County, Florida. The fugitive’s return was coordinated among the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Frank Parsolano was released on his own recognizance on November 14, 2000 after violating parole on a 1998 sex offense charge and conviction. In February of 2001, he pled guilty to violation of parole and was placed on 4 years probation again. After failing to check in with court officials, he was listed as absconded on the sex offense database.
Diplomatic Security special agents at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala received a tip in early June 2006 that Parsolano was in Guatemala boasting that he was wanted in America. Diplomatic Security confirmed the Lee County warrant and contacted the U.S. Marshals Service to see if they were willing to take over the warrant for Lee County.
The Guatemalan Police and Guatemalan Immigration were contacted for assistance. Four days later, Diplomatic Security and Guatemalan Police located Parsolano in a very remote part of the country. He was detained there by local police and transported back to Guatemala City until his departure to Miami International Airport on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 under Diplomatic Security escort. Parsolano was expelled by the Guatemalans for being an undesirable based upon crimes of moral turpitude and the U.S. warrant for his arrest.
U.S. Marshals Service personnel took custody of Parsolano at Miami International Airport and transferred him to the Lee County Jail. Parsolano is expected in Lee County Magistrate Court this week.
http://www.state.gov/m/ds/rls/67964.htm
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Killing in America, it's become a past time.
If any news agency is going to 'report' deaths in this country, they also need to report on what is being done to end it. That isn't being done. The NRA overrides all other perspectives to stop killing in the USA. The media ONLY reports the deaths without what the government is doing to stem the violence. In Texas, Bush would excute murderers as a means of prevention of killing. He had a record number of excutions during his governorship.
As with most instances these cases the 'socio-economic' focus is noted. It is those dynamics that is chronically viewed as 'the problem' and NOT the abundance of guns in the USA under this administration. Never once has the Bush White House even alluded to The Brady Bill. Mr. Brady was injured by a bullet when an assassination was attempted against Mr. Reagan. It took Bill Clinton's candidacy for President to bring forward The Brady Bill. It has been undermined by the Bush White House ever since. The current escalation in violence in the USA reflects Bush's ineffective policies.
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'Jessica's Law' Eyes Sex Offenders
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/31/earlyshow/main684190.shtml
ARRON at one time reported on Florida's negligence of State Supervised Children
Where is Rilya Wilson?State of Florida loses child, doesn't notice for 16 months
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27646
Fla. can't find 1,000 kids in state custody
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/06/03/florida.child.welfare/
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This is an odd entry about the fascinations of Mr. Foley. Keeping the attention off himself was more than likely a priority.
Letter to Governor Jeb Bush From Congressman Mark Foley
By Mark Foley
CNSNews.com
Information Services
June 20, 2003
(Editor's Note: The following is a letter from Congressman Mark Foley to Florida Governor Jeb Bush asking to shut down a children's nudist camp in Tampa, Fla.)
June 18, 2003
The Honorable Jeb BushGovernor, State of Florida
PL05 Capitol Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
The Honorable Charlie CristAttorney General, State of Florida
PL01
The CapitolTallahassee, FL 32399-1050
Dear Governor Bush and Attorney General Crist:
The New York Times today carried an article I found truly disturbing. Headlined "Old Enough to Make a Lanyard, and to Do It Nude," it is a story about a nudist camp for children - ages 11-18 - at the Lake Como Resort in Land O'Lakes, Florida.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2272370
You have to wonder if he'd ever been there. Did anything ever come of it or was it simply lip service.
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The introduction to this program was about killing and more killing. Death and the like. The Forte' of CNN.
It's not called pedophilia, but necrophilia.
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Here is another Florida pedophile. It must be the hot weather and light clothing that attracts them.
On June 7, 2006, U.S. citizen Frank Parsolano, of Cape Coral, Florida, was returned to the United States from Guatemala to face justice on felony probation violation charges in Lee County, Florida. The fugitive’s return was coordinated among the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Frank Parsolano was released on his own recognizance on November 14, 2000 after violating parole on a 1998 sex offense charge and conviction. In February of 2001, he pled guilty to violation of parole and was placed on 4 years probation again. After failing to check in with court officials, he was listed as absconded on the sex offense database.
Diplomatic Security special agents at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala received a tip in early June 2006 that Parsolano was in Guatemala boasting that he was wanted in America. Diplomatic Security confirmed the Lee County warrant and contacted the U.S. Marshals Service to see if they were willing to take over the warrant for Lee County.
The Guatemalan Police and Guatemalan Immigration were contacted for assistance. Four days later, Diplomatic Security and Guatemalan Police located Parsolano in a very remote part of the country. He was detained there by local police and transported back to Guatemala City until his departure to Miami International Airport on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 under Diplomatic Security escort. Parsolano was expelled by the Guatemalans for being an undesirable based upon crimes of moral turpitude and the U.S. warrant for his arrest.
U.S. Marshals Service personnel took custody of Parsolano at Miami International Airport and transferred him to the Lee County Jail. Parsolano is expected in Lee County Magistrate Court this week.
http://www.state.gov/m/ds/rls/67964.htm
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Killing in America, it's become a past time.
If any news agency is going to 'report' deaths in this country, they also need to report on what is being done to end it. That isn't being done. The NRA overrides all other perspectives to stop killing in the USA. The media ONLY reports the deaths without what the government is doing to stem the violence. In Texas, Bush would excute murderers as a means of prevention of killing. He had a record number of excutions during his governorship.
As with most instances these cases the 'socio-economic' focus is noted. It is those dynamics that is chronically viewed as 'the problem' and NOT the abundance of guns in the USA under this administration. Never once has the Bush White House even alluded to The Brady Bill. Mr. Brady was injured by a bullet when an assassination was attempted against Mr. Reagan. It took Bill Clinton's candidacy for President to bring forward The Brady Bill. It has been undermined by the Bush White House ever since. The current escalation in violence in the USA reflects Bush's ineffective policies.
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Africa and why are the people there so negliected.
There are no effective polices. Bush has addressed issues such as HIV/AIDS and the Millenium Challenge Account/Corporation but these are very slow deployed programs. Last count there were about 16 countries that qualified for the MCC and of that not all were from Africa. There is also no support for UN Peacekeepers by the USA Military.
Nigeria: Dam Collapses, 100 Feared Dead
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610020169.html
During times of peace, the USA is a vast assistant to world order and peace. It is unfortunate under this administration that capacity has been reduced to a few programs rather than the primary means of support to the world order. That's what corruption does. It takes from those most in need and diverts hope to profits of a few. When the USA leaves the world out of it's priorities there are very bad effects. That is what the return to old world Republicanism does.
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Bob Woodward finally got the information he needed to 'make the case' against the Bush White House. The Washington Post is still the paper, isn't it? It's interesting to watch the major papers of the country take turns exposing the corruption that lead to an illegal war and attempts by Bush to undermine democracy. They all took the 'heat' in different ways. They have all suffered in circulation sales. I think that has to do with the lack of wealth of the people that normally buy newspapers as well. The American People and the world for that matter need to realize the advocacy these newspapers take to preserve liberty and 'the truth.' My hat off to Mr. Woodward. He hasn't let us down yet.
Falling on His Sword
Colin Powell's most significant moment turned out to be his lowest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092700106.html
"The president would like to make a change," Card said, using a time-honored formulation that avoided the words "resign" or "fire." He noted briskly that there had been some discussion of having Powell remain until after Iraqi elections scheduled for the end of January, but that the president had decided to take care of all Cabinet changes sooner rather than later. Bush wanted Powell's resignation letter dated two days hence, on Friday, November 12, Card said, although the White House expected him to stay at the State Department until his successor was confirmed by the Senate.
Card has been noted to state he was surprised it was he that resigned and not Rumsfeld.
Card resigns as White House chief of staff
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-03-28-card_x.htm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Struggling to revive his troubled presidency, President Bush replaced longtime chief of staff Andy Card with budget director Joshua Bolten on Tuesday and gave Bolten authority to make further changes in a White House staff that even Republicans have complained is tired, insular and lacking fresh ideas.
Card plans to stay on the job until April 14, when the switch with Bolten takes place.
Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images
Appearing with Bush in the Oval Office, Bolten gave no hint about what, if any, shake-up he might order. But White House officials said no one should doubt his ability to replace Bush aides. "He'll have all the authority he needs ... to make the decisions that he feels best, working with the president," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
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Bush just can't make the boggy man go away.
Top Bush Aide Loses a Post in Overhaul
WASHINGTON, April 19 — The overhaul of the White House staff intensified today as Karl Rove, one of the president's most powerful and feared advisers, gave up day-to-day control over administration policy to concentrate on the midterm elections and Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, said he was stepping down.
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Central African Republic: 'Severe' Violence Forces Almost 250,000 to Flee - UN
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610010035.html
Almost a quarter of a million people in northern parts of the Central African Republic (CAR) have been forced to flee their homes in recent months because of "severe levels of violence" perpetrated by armed groups, including Government soldiers, the top United Nations aid official in the impoverished country said today, warning of the regional impact of this unrest.
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The Bush 'answer' to African strife is Nation Building. Chronic Nation Building in countries where war, disease and genocide reduce the populous to dangerously low levels causing the near collapse of sovereignty. If Bush's White House and State Department cannot do better than this, there won't be nations to build.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200609270821.html?page=5
QUESTION: I am concerned about the rule of law. I work with the African Judicial Network and with Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer on an African Judiciary Commission for Africa. And so how do you see the role of the rule of law and the African judiciary in view of the AU court that's in the process of trying to get established affecting some of these critical issues in the Continent?
SECRETARY RICE: Yes. Well, thank you. I think there may be no more important institutional reform that can take place in the countries of Africa, on the Continent of Africa than respect for rule of law. Very often, though, when we talk about respect for rule of law, we don't recognize that sometimes just the instruments, the tools, the knowledge, the expertise to actually have a system that functions under rule of law, a judicial system, a police system, they're just absent in some of these countries. And so the United States has actually had as a part of its assistance programs a focus on trying to help people to actually develop the institutions of rule of law: the training of judges, the training of prosecutors, getting away from corruption of the police. And I want to thank you for being part of this effort, because we now are trying to do something continent-wide that would bring resources. And by this I mean not just money but resources like yourself, people who have been involved in rule of law to be technical assistants, to help train -- I would hope that we would have more exchanges at the private level between the bar associations and those in Africa that we could get students here who could spend some time; that we could get professors lecturing in Africa.
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Dennis Hastert - the lesson there is that Republicans practice politics even at the esteem of a young page. The Party before all else.
GOP Leader Rebuts Hastert on Foley
Reynolds: Speaker Knew of E-Mails in Spring
By Jonathan Weisman and Charles BabingtonWashington Post Staff WritersSunday, October 1, 2006; Page A01
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) was notified early this year of inappropriate e-mails from former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to a 16-year-old page, a top GOP House member said yesterday -- contradicting the speaker's assertions that he learned of concerns about Foley only last week.
Hastert did not dispute the claims of Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.), and his office confirmed that some of Hastert's top aides knew last year that Foley had been ordered to cease contact with the boy and to treat all pages respectfully.
Anderson's Time in Africa is to promote Rumsfeld as a follow up to the Weekend Edition of "Man of War." I always thought he was a racehorse. The Anderson Focus is completely irrelivant to the well being of the African people.
enough
Saturday, September 30, 2006
The Republicans are Corrupt, why would anyone think they aren't sexually scandalous.
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A Scramble for Republicans in Wake of Foley Resignation
By Mara Lee
Scripps Howard News Service
Washington (SHNS) -- The resignation Friday of GOP Congressman Mark Foley in a sex scandal adds to the woes of Republicans already fearing that voters might knock them out of power in the House in elections less than six weeks away.
Democrats need to win 15 seats to take over, and Foley's Florida seat was considered safe for Republicans _ until Friday, when the six-term lawmaker quit amid reports that he sent sexually explicit Internet messages to teens who worked as congressional pages.
Nathan Gonzales, a political analyst with the Rothenberg Political Report, said that, around the country, "Republicans are already on the defensive. This just adds to their list of headaches."
The Rothenberg Political Report was predicting a Democratic gain of 15 to 20 seats before the resignation.
Tom Riehle, a partner at the polling firm RT Strategies, said this race was not on its list of 30 contests that could change the majority in the House. Now, his company will be polling in the district for its Majority Watch poll, which will be released in mid-October.
He said that when a Congress member has been in office for a long time and has voter loyalty, "quite often, the only thing that can unseat him or her is a personal scandal."
Riehle said Rep. Don Sherwood, R-Pa., is facing a similar problem, because of news coverage of his affair with a woman who is 30 years his junior. Sherwood polled at 43 percent, and his opponent at 50 percent in the Majority Watch poll.
Riehle, who has worked for Democrats before founding the bipartisan firm, said the Florida election calculus is complicated.
"They didn't recruit an A-level candidate on the Democrat side, but it's very late to recruit an A-level candidate on the Republican side."
GOP leaders were considering a Republican statehouse representative from the region, but did not name Foley's replacement Friday.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee praised its candidate, Tim Mahoney, as a serious contender.
Mahoney "has been conducting a vigorous campaign for more than a year and running television ads for almost a month. He has raised over $700,000 and he's personally donated an additional $349,000," read a memo released by the DCCC communications department. "In the latest poll in the district, conducted by (Democratic pollsters) Hamilton Beattie and completed September 14th, Foley was under 50 percent."
Under Florida election law, it's too late for Foley's name to be removed from the ballot. But all votes for him will go to the Republican nominee who replaces him.
University of Virginia political-science professor Larry Sabato said the Republican would have a good chance to win, but he wondered if people would want to vote for Foley, even knowing he's not the nominee. He called it "the yuck factor."
He predicted the scandal would not taint other Republican incumbents and pointed out that former Rep. Duke Cunningham, R-Calif., who went to prison for taking bribes, was replaced in a special election by another Republican who was working as a lobbyist.
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Dana Bash "... it is clear that Congressman Foley was clearly not honest ... "
A Scramble for Republicans in Wake of Foley Resignation
By Mara Lee
Scripps Howard News Service
Washington (SHNS) -- The resignation Friday of GOP Congressman Mark Foley in a sex scandal adds to the woes of Republicans already fearing that voters might knock them out of power in the House in elections less than six weeks away.
Democrats need to win 15 seats to take over, and Foley's Florida seat was considered safe for Republicans _ until Friday, when the six-term lawmaker quit amid reports that he sent sexually explicit Internet messages to teens who worked as congressional pages.
Nathan Gonzales, a political analyst with the Rothenberg Political Report, said that, around the country, "Republicans are already on the defensive. This just adds to their list of headaches."
The Rothenberg Political Report was predicting a Democratic gain of 15 to 20 seats before the resignation.
Tom Riehle, a partner at the polling firm RT Strategies, said this race was not on its list of 30 contests that could change the majority in the House. Now, his company will be polling in the district for its Majority Watch poll, which will be released in mid-October.
He said that when a Congress member has been in office for a long time and has voter loyalty, "quite often, the only thing that can unseat him or her is a personal scandal."
Riehle said Rep. Don Sherwood, R-Pa., is facing a similar problem, because of news coverage of his affair with a woman who is 30 years his junior. Sherwood polled at 43 percent, and his opponent at 50 percent in the Majority Watch poll.
Riehle, who has worked for Democrats before founding the bipartisan firm, said the Florida election calculus is complicated.
"They didn't recruit an A-level candidate on the Democrat side, but it's very late to recruit an A-level candidate on the Republican side."
GOP leaders were considering a Republican statehouse representative from the region, but did not name Foley's replacement Friday.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee praised its candidate, Tim Mahoney, as a serious contender.
Mahoney "has been conducting a vigorous campaign for more than a year and running television ads for almost a month. He has raised over $700,000 and he's personally donated an additional $349,000," read a memo released by the DCCC communications department. "In the latest poll in the district, conducted by (Democratic pollsters) Hamilton Beattie and completed September 14th, Foley was under 50 percent."
Under Florida election law, it's too late for Foley's name to be removed from the ballot. But all votes for him will go to the Republican nominee who replaces him.
University of Virginia political-science professor Larry Sabato said the Republican would have a good chance to win, but he wondered if people would want to vote for Foley, even knowing he's not the nominee. He called it "the yuck factor."
He predicted the scandal would not taint other Republican incumbents and pointed out that former Rep. Duke Cunningham, R-Calif., who went to prison for taking bribes, was replaced in a special election by another Republican who was working as a lobbyist.
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Dana Bash "... it is clear that Congressman Foley was clearly not honest ... "
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Preventing Pelosi
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/guests/s_471818.html
The question about the November elections isn't whether the Republicans will lose seats but how many they will lose. And as fall begins, the forecasts are getting bleak: If Republicans lose 15 House seats, they will lose their majority as well.
Republican Hill staffers are eyeing the exits, looking to get out while the getting's good. They may be too late: K Street lobbying shops are hiring Democrats in anticipation of a shift in power.
Republicans are doing better in the Senate. They are likely to lose seats there but probably not their majority.
But House Republicans face a daunting national political environment. The continued fighting in Iraq, along with the absence of a clear path to victory, has demoralized Republicans and angered Democrats. It has soured the public mood even on seemingly unrelated issues.
Some Republicans have drawn hope from the fact that forecasters thought they would lose seats in 2002 and turned out to be wrong. But most of the poll numbers looked worse for Republicans in August 2006 than they did in August 2002.
In 2002, 51 percent of Americans thought the country was "on the wrong track" while 43 percent thought we were headed "in the right direction." That eight-point gap has ballooned to 38 points: Now 66 percent of the public thinks we're on the wrong track, compared with 28 percent who think the opposite.
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I also read a poll today stating only 35% of voters knew Senator Menendez was their incumbent.
Poll: Voters split on Kean, Menendez
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/15569956.htm
By Leonard N. Fleming
Inquirer Staff Writer
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The bitterly fought New Jersey Senate race between U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and his Republican opponent, Thomas H. Kean Jr., remains a dead heat, despite a federal probe into a lease deal involving the Democratic lawmaker, a new poll showed yesterday.
The Quinnipiac University poll, which surveyed 1,233 registered voters, underscored the pivotal role that independents will play in a highly volatile contest between two largely unknown candidates that has been focused on ethics and the Iraq war.
Independents are evenly split on whom they will support, and 37 percent of them say they could change their mind before Election Day, the poll showed. Although Democrats have done well with independents in recent years, they could help elect a Republican for the first time since 1972.
The race will "come right down to the independent voters" and neither candidate has a clear majority yet, said Clay F. Richards, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute based in Connecticut.
Kean, a state senator from Union County and son of a former popular governor, holds a 48 percent to 45 percent lead among likely voters over Menendez, a former Hudson County congressman who was appointed to the Senate by Gov. Corzine in January. The survey included 688 likely voters and had a margin of error of 3.7 percent - meaning the race is a virtual tie.
The poll indicates that the campaign strategies - Kean painting his opponent as unethical, and Menendez linking his challenger to President Bush and the Iraq war - are having an impact.
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I am tired of this mess. Teens are still killing each other because they can. There are plenty of guns around and Bush doesn't care. The Brady Bill was proven effective. Yet, the current majority Republicans have thrown all caution out with their politicking for their power base. This Party does not care about the people of this nation, they only care about what they can get out of this country and it's military. They are all 'power players' vs. legislators and statesmen/wemen.
Statement of Brady President Paul Helmke On House Passage Of Bill That Protects Gun Dealers That Help Arm Criminals
http://www.bradycampaign.org/media/?pagename=release&release=796
Washington, D.C. - Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement:
“The United States House of Representatives today chose to pass special interest legislation that benefits the law-breaking gun pushers who make money by selling firearms that end up in the hands of killers, muggers and thieves. They ignored the concerns of our nation’s Mayors and law enforcement leaders who opposed this awful bill.
“One must ask the question: When does this end in our country? How many children and police officers must die before our elected members of Congress stop doing the bidding of the gun lobby? Today in Pennsylvania, the families of the victims of gun violence drove for hours to get to the state Capitol to ask for help. In New York, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, my home city of Fort Wayne, Indiana and cities all over America, the people want their leaders to get the illegal guns off the streets.
“In Washington, D.C., instead of listening to all of those voices, a loud message was sent to the gun traffickers: Keep the guns coming. That’s a frightening message.”
enough
Friday, September 29, 2006
The USA Military is NOT in Iraq to act as Private Guards to Halliburton
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I don't how many times I have heard the words, "It's for the money." The Halliburton employees know full well they may not be returning home. They expect the USA military to protect their interests. It's war, babe. If you are going to be a civilian in the middle of a war zone you are half crazy and the other half is desperate for a job Bush cannot supply at home.
The USA military does the same job as these truck drivers for far less salary. I can imagine the USA military thinking, they don't get paid that much, they aren't putting their lives on the line for people that actually belong at work back home.
Privatized Warfare: The Summer of Discontent
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2811/
But then again, in August, a federal jury in Raleigh, N.C., set a legal precedent by convicting CIA contractor David Passaro for his role in the death of a detainee under interrogation in Afghanistan, marking the first time an American civilian had been held criminally accountable for abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq. A couple of weeks later, Blackwater USA—the “professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations firm”—lost its attempt to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of four employees brutally killed in Fallujah. In late July, the construction firm Bechtel couldn’t escape being audited, and lost a $50 million contract for mismanaging the long-delayed building of a Basra children’s hospital.
The jobs the Halliburton employees are doing belong to the Iraqis. We don't belong in Iraq, We never did.
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Michael Ware - "...US Forces are simply unpopular in this country (Iraq) ..." Thank you.
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I have no sympathy for the private contractors ANYWHERE in a war zone. It's occupation and not requested assistance. The people working in war zones need to insist on better jobs back home and pay scales to match it ! Stop being stupid asses !
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Ambramoff and Bush
House Suspends Hill Telecom License
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092701859.html
Va. Firm's Award Linked to Abramoff
By James V. GrimaldiWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, September 28, 2006; Page D03
House leaders have suspended a multimillion-dollar wireless communications license that federal prosecutors say was corruptly awarded to a Dulles telecommunications firm by Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) in exchange for gifts from lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Even after conviction the corruption continues:
Abramoff Seeks Delay in Prison Term
http://www.forbes.com/business/services/feeds/ap/2006/09/28/ap3052973.html
A judge agreed Thursday to again put off prison for disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former business partner, but the delays were shorter than what lawyers on both sides sought. Federal prosecutors and defense lawyers had jointly requested delays of 90 days beyond Monday's scheduled prison surrender date so Abramoff can continue to cooperate in a Washington corruption investigation, and Adam Kidan can provide more information about the gangland-style murder of former SunCruz Casinos owner Konstantinos Boulis. U.S. District Judge Paul Huck reluctantly agreed to let Abramoff remain free until Nov. 15, and Adam Kidan until Oct. 23.
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Projects under scrutiny
Inquiry looks at Halliburton work in Nigeria and elsewhere
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/4220311.html
By DAVID IVANOVICHCopyright 2006
Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Federal investigators, who have been looking into a possible bribery scheme involving Houston's Halliburton Co. and a Nigerian natural gas plant, are scrutinizing "multiple" projects both within and outside Nigeria, according to company filings.
Recently uncovered information suggests employees at Halliburton's M.W. Kellogg Co. — some time before 1998 — may have planned to funnel payments to government officials to land projects in countries outside Nigeria, Halliburton subsidiary KBR said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Republican Legislative Laziness
Dramatic new video shows Halliburton contractors under fire in Iraq
http://www.abc4.com/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=9798A429-1B79-4BF1-82E6-5224094EE7F5
See the Video: Halliburton truck drivers under fire in Iraq
A dramatic home video obtained by ABC News shows U.S. troops apparently abandoned a truck convoy after it came under insurgent attack in Iraq last year.
Three unarmed Halliburton truck drivers were executed at point-blank range once the troops left, according to a surviving driver, Preston Wheeler, of Mena, Ark., who taped the scene. "They was murdered. To me, they was murdered," Wheeler told ABC News in an exclusive interview broadcast Wednesday on World News and Nightline.
The tape shows an armored personnel carrier leading the trucks that Wheeler says was from the Virginia National Guard. Once insurgents opened fire and disabled four trucks, the personnel carrier can be seen racing ahead.
The corruption? Is neck deep.
US judge backs Halliburton on Iraq overtime claim
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-09-28T171439Z_01_N28271048_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-HALLIBURTON.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
NEW YORK, Sept 28 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas ruled this week that oil field services company Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) does not have to pay millions of dollars in overtime wages claimed by U.S. employees working in Iraq.
The five plaintiffs had filed the lawsuit filed last year charging Halliburton's KBR engineering and construction unit violated the terms of its LOGCAP III contract with the Pentagon by failing to pay them 1-and-1/2 times their base pay for hours worked over 40 hours per week.
Many of Halliburton's employees often worked as much as 100 hours per week under dangerous and difficult conditions, according to the complaint, but were paid not paid at the higher rate.
The five, who had sought class action status to include an estimated 20,000 and 40,000 employees who worked for KBR in Kuwait and Iraq, also argued the company had paid them too little by miscalculating their wages.
I don't how many times I have heard the words, "It's for the money." The Halliburton employees know full well they may not be returning home. They expect the USA military to protect their interests. It's war, babe. If you are going to be a civilian in the middle of a war zone you are half crazy and the other half is desperate for a job Bush cannot supply at home.
The USA military does the same job as these truck drivers for far less salary. I can imagine the USA military thinking, they don't get paid that much, they aren't putting their lives on the line for people that actually belong at work back home.
Privatized Warfare: The Summer of Discontent
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2811/
But then again, in August, a federal jury in Raleigh, N.C., set a legal precedent by convicting CIA contractor David Passaro for his role in the death of a detainee under interrogation in Afghanistan, marking the first time an American civilian had been held criminally accountable for abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq. A couple of weeks later, Blackwater USA—the “professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations firm”—lost its attempt to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of four employees brutally killed in Fallujah. In late July, the construction firm Bechtel couldn’t escape being audited, and lost a $50 million contract for mismanaging the long-delayed building of a Basra children’s hospital.
The jobs the Halliburton employees are doing belong to the Iraqis. We don't belong in Iraq, We never did.
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Michael Ware - "...US Forces are simply unpopular in this country (Iraq) ..." Thank you.
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I have no sympathy for the private contractors ANYWHERE in a war zone. It's occupation and not requested assistance. The people working in war zones need to insist on better jobs back home and pay scales to match it ! Stop being stupid asses !
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Ambramoff and Bush
House Suspends Hill Telecom License
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092701859.html
Va. Firm's Award Linked to Abramoff
By James V. GrimaldiWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, September 28, 2006; Page D03
House leaders have suspended a multimillion-dollar wireless communications license that federal prosecutors say was corruptly awarded to a Dulles telecommunications firm by Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) in exchange for gifts from lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Even after conviction the corruption continues:
Abramoff Seeks Delay in Prison Term
http://www.forbes.com/business/services/feeds/ap/2006/09/28/ap3052973.html
A judge agreed Thursday to again put off prison for disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former business partner, but the delays were shorter than what lawyers on both sides sought. Federal prosecutors and defense lawyers had jointly requested delays of 90 days beyond Monday's scheduled prison surrender date so Abramoff can continue to cooperate in a Washington corruption investigation, and Adam Kidan can provide more information about the gangland-style murder of former SunCruz Casinos owner Konstantinos Boulis. U.S. District Judge Paul Huck reluctantly agreed to let Abramoff remain free until Nov. 15, and Adam Kidan until Oct. 23.
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Projects under scrutiny
Inquiry looks at Halliburton work in Nigeria and elsewhere
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/4220311.html
By DAVID IVANOVICHCopyright 2006
Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Federal investigators, who have been looking into a possible bribery scheme involving Houston's Halliburton Co. and a Nigerian natural gas plant, are scrutinizing "multiple" projects both within and outside Nigeria, according to company filings.
Recently uncovered information suggests employees at Halliburton's M.W. Kellogg Co. — some time before 1998 — may have planned to funnel payments to government officials to land projects in countries outside Nigeria, Halliburton subsidiary KBR said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1027
Republican Legislative Laziness
Dramatic new video shows Halliburton contractors under fire in Iraq
http://www.abc4.com/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=9798A429-1B79-4BF1-82E6-5224094EE7F5
See the Video: Halliburton truck drivers under fire in Iraq
A dramatic home video obtained by ABC News shows U.S. troops apparently abandoned a truck convoy after it came under insurgent attack in Iraq last year.
Three unarmed Halliburton truck drivers were executed at point-blank range once the troops left, according to a surviving driver, Preston Wheeler, of Mena, Ark., who taped the scene. "They was murdered. To me, they was murdered," Wheeler told ABC News in an exclusive interview broadcast Wednesday on World News and Nightline.
The tape shows an armored personnel carrier leading the trucks that Wheeler says was from the Virginia National Guard. Once insurgents opened fire and disabled four trucks, the personnel carrier can be seen racing ahead.
The corruption? Is neck deep.
US judge backs Halliburton on Iraq overtime claim
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-09-28T171439Z_01_N28271048_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-HALLIBURTON.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
NEW YORK, Sept 28 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas ruled this week that oil field services company Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) does not have to pay millions of dollars in overtime wages claimed by U.S. employees working in Iraq.
The five plaintiffs had filed the lawsuit filed last year charging Halliburton's KBR engineering and construction unit violated the terms of its LOGCAP III contract with the Pentagon by failing to pay them 1-and-1/2 times their base pay for hours worked over 40 hours per week.
Many of Halliburton's employees often worked as much as 100 hours per week under dangerous and difficult conditions, according to the complaint, but were paid not paid at the higher rate.
The five, who had sought class action status to include an estimated 20,000 and 40,000 employees who worked for KBR in Kuwait and Iraq, also argued the company had paid them too little by miscalculating their wages.
Vengence against Hugo
I don't think he is feeling it.
It’s time petroleum prices are lowered
http://www.timesnews.co.ke/29sep06/editorials/edtorial1.html
Petroleum dealers in Kenya meet Energy Permanent Secretary today to discuss the escalating fuel prices. There is no gainsaying that petroleum is a key factor of production in the country and that is why President Kibaki’s concern about rising costs of the commodity should be approached with the seriousness and thirst that it deserves. If these high prices are not curbed, the Kenyan economy could easily lose the gains made in view of the recently published 5.8 percent economic growth. ...
In doing so, the government can use what Foreign Affairs minister, Raphael Tuju referred to as economic diplomacy to secure cheap oil for Kenyans. In this time of economic constraints, Kenya cannot afford to continue with this trend where high fuel prices are killing the local manufacturing industry because of high production cost precipitated by runaway fuel prices. A way must be sought to procure cheaper sources of fuel. All that is needed is for our economic planners to be more adventurous in negotiating for better deals in the international market.
At a recent meeting of African heads of state and government under the auspices of the African Peer Review Mechanism in Banjul, the Gambia, Venezuelan and Iranian leaders, Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejaad respectively, advised African leaders to seek cheaper and clean oil from the two countries. The two heads asked African leaders not to be intimidated by Western threats that they should not do business with the two oil producing countries. As the two leaders observed then, governments are formed in order to promote the welfare of their people.
The two presidents said they were saddened to see many African consumers of petroleum products suffer under crippling trade relations with unscrupulous dealers yet their countries offer oil at substantially affordable prices. In view of this the Ministry of Energy should start expanding its policy options concerning procurement of petroleum. With a free market economy in place, the country is in a better position to procure cheaper oil than ever before. If the country is presently seeking alternative bilateral partners like China, it can surely seek alternative sources of oil.
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Kenya: Nairobi to Host Climate Change Meeting
http://allafrica.com/stories/200609270994.html
The East African Standard (Nairobi)
September 28, 2006Posted to the web September 27, 2006
Samuel OtienoNairobi
Preparation for the first international conference on environment to be held in the country is under way.
Environment and Natural Resources minister, Prof Kivutha Kibwana, said the United Nations meeting to discuss climate change would take place from November 6 to 17.
Between 6,000 and 10,000 representatives of governments, non-governmental organisations, private sector and academia are expected.
Kibwana said about 130 ministers would also attend the conference expected to cost about Sh803 million.
Briefing the Press at his office on Wednesday, Kibwana said the Government had so far spent Sh193 million on the preparation for the 12th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
COP is the supreme body responsible for keeping international efforts to address climate change on track.
"It also reviews the implementation of the convention and examines the commitment of parties in light of the convention objectives," said Kibwana.
Among the issues to be discussed at the conference, which will be the second meeting of the Kyoto Protocol parties, are new scientific findings and experiences in implementing climate change policies.
Kenya is a signatory to UNFCCC and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Kibwana said the country was developing projects under the Clean Development Mechanism, which was created under the Kyoto Protocol to help developing countries attain sustainable development.
He said Kenya was chosen because it is vulnerable to climate change. The minister said the country has suffered droughts, famine and flooding due to the effects of climate change.
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1053
News secretary
The troops are in better hands with NATO. I am hopeful this is a sign that Rumsfeld is getting ready to resign. That also means the troops are actually fighting a war for the country rather than acting as Halliburton Private Security Transport Firm.
1100
Rally in Charlotte NC to Impeach Bush and Cheney Saturday, Sept 30th at 1 PM
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=13996
Gregg Jocoy
September 26, 2006
Freedom Park in Charlotte, NC will buzz with speeches and music this Saturday starting at 1 PM. The goal of all the music and speeches is nothing less than the permanent removal of George Bush and Dick Cheney.
Offering speakers from across the Carolinas and the nation, the rally will call for the impeachment of the President and Vice President based in part on the lies told the Congress and the American people by them in the lead up to the war on Iraq.
Musical acts cover the gamut from individual performers, like Michael Sharpe and Peter Moore to groups like Bellyfull and Hardcore Lounge. Sponsors of the event include the NC, Charlotte and York County (SC) chapters of the Green Party, local branches of Code Pink and NOW, and local activist groups like the Action Center for Justice and the Charlotte Coalition for Peace and Justice.
enough
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Osama bin Laden is Bush's Problem. Musharraf and Karzai had bigger ones.
1000
Bush is staging 'blame' for his own failures and not finding solutions to the problems of these countires.
Musharraf on Kashmir: Calls for Talks on Self-Governance
By Khalida Mazhar 'Pakistan Times' US Bureau Chief
NEW YORK (US): Pakistan was left stranded in 1989 after Afghan war, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said in an address to the Council of Foreign Relations here while releasing his book “The Line of Fire”.The country was not delivered F-16 fighter planes neither the paid amount returned back to Pakistan, which created suspicions and it will take time to iron out the situation, Musharraf said.He said the governments of United States and Pakistan enjoying cordial relations but the people of Pakistan have reservations about the United States, as the country was left stranded after the Afghan war in 1989.
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/09/27/top.htm
1006
President Musharraf doesn't even recognize the Taliban. How can President Karzai talk to Bush's issues with the Taliban and al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden when President Musharraf doesn't even recognize the Taliban.
Musharraf says peace accord is with Tribals, not Taliban
By Sonita Taylor 'Pakistan Times' Special Correspondent
NEW YORK (US): Pakistan has entered into a peace pact with North Waziristan's tribal elders in a strategic move to isolate the Taliban, President Pervez Musharraf said Monday night. In an interview with Public Broadcasting System (PBS), the President dispelled the misconception that his government had caved in to the Taliban, asserting that not all people in that region were pro-Taliban. "We have entered into a peace treaty with the non-Taliban," he said, adding that it was working well. To questions about reported movement across the Pak-Afghan border, he replied that Pakistan was doing a lot, but more must be done in Afghanistan. The Taliban, who occupied some 90 per cent of Afghanistan in 1995, were not from Pakistan, and Mullah Omar had never been there since that year.
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/09/27/top1.htm
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Both these Presidents come to Washington to ask for assistance. They aren't interested in Bush's failed war. THIS IS WHAT PAKISTAN AND MUSHARRAF'S people want to hear about.
Kerry urges more development funds for Pakistan
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/09/27/top7.htm
'Pakistan Times' Monitoring Desk
NEW YORK (US): Senator John Kerry, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate in the 2004 presidential election, has called for increasing U.S. development funds for Pakistan as part of the strategy to counter extremism."(We) must use economic leverage to ensure the Taliban no longer finds sanctuary and recruits in Pakistan", he said in an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal.Noting that Washington gave Pakistan only $300 million in economic support last year, Sen. Kerry said the amount was insufficient as that's "what we spend in a day in Iraq.""We need to give to give more in development funds earmarked for specific projects that help undermine radicals and demand more in return from (President Pervez) Musharraf government," he said.
1021
And the USA has HUGE problems.
Loss of Antarctic Ice Increases
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F30E15F73C550C708CDDAA0894DE404482
Two new satellite surveys show that warming air and water are causing Antarctica to lose ice faster than it can be replenished by interior snowfall, and thus are contributing to rising global sea levels.
The studies differed significantly in estimates of how much water was being added to the oceans this way, but their authors both said that the work added credence to recent conclusions that global warming caused by humans was likely to lead to higher sea levels than previous studies had predicted.
The earlier projections presumed that snowfall over Antarctica, as well as Greenland, would increase as warming added moisture to the air, compensating for the losses of ice from crumbling or melting along coasts.
Several independent experts agreed with the new conclusions, saying they meshed both with more localized studies of trends in Antarctica and with evidence from warm spells before the last ice age.
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Have anything to say worthwhile Anderson. We know there is a war and it's difficult. It's time end the wars and bring the troops home. You aren't going to get a draft. There is very few al Qaeda in Iraq. One of them is in prison in Jordan. An Iraqi woman. Jordan. The war is unproductive in providing stability.
Try this award winning question, Anderson. "Is there improved stability in the Middle East post invasion into Iraq and how best is that achieved? Will an autonomous Provincial Iraq actually bring a more stable region?"
This program goes on and on and on with the same message.
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Pakistan gives front page news space to Global Warming. Pakistan. Can President Musharraf have an intelligence discussion about the HUGE problems the USA has if Bush doesn't even recognize Human Induced Global Warming. Yet. To the Pakistanis it is a very real problem that the USA is a huge contributor to.
Global temperature highest in Millennia 'Pakistan Times'
Monitoring Desk
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/09/27/top9.htm
WASHINGTON (US): The planet's temperature has climbed to levels not seen in thousands of years, warming that has begun to affect plants and animals, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Earth has been warming at a rate of 0.36 degree Fahrenheit per decade for the last 30 years, according to the research team led by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.That brings the overall temperature to the warmest in the current interglacial period, which began about 12,000 years ago.The researchers noted that a report in the journal Nature found that 1,700 plant, animal and insect species moved poleward at an average rate of about 4 miles per decade in the last half of the 20th century.
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You never stated what is on the mind of these Presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan. It helps to know what guests are stating as priorities and problems. Ignorance to other President's concerns is a measure of stupidity in circles of diplomacy.
Musharraf on Peace
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/09/27/editorial.htm
BEAMING an explicit message to the world, President Pervez Musharraf, in his extensive address to the 61st session of the UN General Assembly has called for resolution of volatile issues like Kashmir and Palestine, end to racial and religious discrimination against Muslims and ban on the ‘defamation of Islam’ to promote peace, justice and harmony in the world. He also attributed terrorism to the old conflicts and new campaigns of military intervention and advocated for pursuit of enlightened moderation as a way forward to deal with the scourge. As a matter of fact, the world is in turmoil as a result of injustice and discrimination against the Muslim world, exclusively at the hands of the mighty powers. Religious sensitivities of the Muslims are being hurt through attacks on Islam, one way or the other. Thus, it’s obviously a sheer folly to hope for peace amidst perpetration of injustice, intimidation and deprivation on the Muslims.
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You should stay on message that won you the Emmy's Anderson.
Feature story in a regular newscast: CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 for Charity Hospital.
Live coverage of a breaking story (long form): CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 for Starving in Plain Sight.
CBS and PBS lead winners of Emmy news awards (click on)
(Sep 27, 2006)
CBS and PBS each took five awards at the annual news and documentary Emmys, where PBS' Bill Moyers was presented with a lifetime achievement award. The winners:
Coverage of a breaking news story in a regular newscast: NBC Nightly News for Hurricane Katrina: Moment of Crisis.
Coverage of a continuing news story in a regular newscast: ABC's World News Tonight for Iraq: Where Things Stand.
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U.S. workers on foreign company payrolls decline for fourth year
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/26/business/NA_FIN_US_Foreign_Hiring.php
WASHINGTON Though outsourcing of jobs to other nations has stirred a political uproar, a slide in the number of U.S. workers on foreign companies' payrolls has gotten little notice.
The latest total, 5.12 million, is down 9.6 percent from 2000. That drop raises concerns that the United States could be losing its edge in the global competition to generate jobs.
In a new report looking at all 50 states, the number of workers in the United States employed by foreign companies dropped by 2.4 percent in 2004 to 5.12 million, marking the fourth consecutive annual decline.
Since hitting an all-time high of 5.66 million workers in 2000, foreign company hiring of Americans has fallen by 9.6 percent. That four-year performance contrasts with a 43.1 percent surge in the six years from 1994 to 2000.
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You know, Aaron Brown always stated "Are we on the same page?" If Bush isn't responsive in his policies to the same issues that his guests are there will be no effective communication. There was one mention about Kashmir by Mr. Bush before the dinner. Not one. Yet, this is one of the worst problems facing Pakistan and India. Unfortunately and maybe Karzai and Musharaff realize this. ...... No ..... they definately recognize this .... they are here as pawns in political goals of Bush. John Kerry did the right thing to extend a helping hand to Pakistan before any change in leadership in the USA. These leaders should realize they aren't the issue so much as Bush is.
I don't feel like reminiscing about bin Laden.
I'll read about the dinner in the New York Times. They have the best leaks.
enough.
Bush is staging 'blame' for his own failures and not finding solutions to the problems of these countires.
Musharraf on Kashmir: Calls for Talks on Self-Governance
By Khalida Mazhar 'Pakistan Times' US Bureau Chief
NEW YORK (US): Pakistan was left stranded in 1989 after Afghan war, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said in an address to the Council of Foreign Relations here while releasing his book “The Line of Fire”.The country was not delivered F-16 fighter planes neither the paid amount returned back to Pakistan, which created suspicions and it will take time to iron out the situation, Musharraf said.He said the governments of United States and Pakistan enjoying cordial relations but the people of Pakistan have reservations about the United States, as the country was left stranded after the Afghan war in 1989.
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/09/27/top.htm
1006
President Musharraf doesn't even recognize the Taliban. How can President Karzai talk to Bush's issues with the Taliban and al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden when President Musharraf doesn't even recognize the Taliban.
Musharraf says peace accord is with Tribals, not Taliban
By Sonita Taylor 'Pakistan Times' Special Correspondent
NEW YORK (US): Pakistan has entered into a peace pact with North Waziristan's tribal elders in a strategic move to isolate the Taliban, President Pervez Musharraf said Monday night. In an interview with Public Broadcasting System (PBS), the President dispelled the misconception that his government had caved in to the Taliban, asserting that not all people in that region were pro-Taliban. "We have entered into a peace treaty with the non-Taliban," he said, adding that it was working well. To questions about reported movement across the Pak-Afghan border, he replied that Pakistan was doing a lot, but more must be done in Afghanistan. The Taliban, who occupied some 90 per cent of Afghanistan in 1995, were not from Pakistan, and Mullah Omar had never been there since that year.
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/09/27/top1.htm
1013
Both these Presidents come to Washington to ask for assistance. They aren't interested in Bush's failed war. THIS IS WHAT PAKISTAN AND MUSHARRAF'S people want to hear about.
Kerry urges more development funds for Pakistan
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/09/27/top7.htm
'Pakistan Times' Monitoring Desk
NEW YORK (US): Senator John Kerry, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate in the 2004 presidential election, has called for increasing U.S. development funds for Pakistan as part of the strategy to counter extremism."(We) must use economic leverage to ensure the Taliban no longer finds sanctuary and recruits in Pakistan", he said in an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal.Noting that Washington gave Pakistan only $300 million in economic support last year, Sen. Kerry said the amount was insufficient as that's "what we spend in a day in Iraq.""We need to give to give more in development funds earmarked for specific projects that help undermine radicals and demand more in return from (President Pervez) Musharraf government," he said.
1021
And the USA has HUGE problems.
Loss of Antarctic Ice Increases
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F30E15F73C550C708CDDAA0894DE404482
Two new satellite surveys show that warming air and water are causing Antarctica to lose ice faster than it can be replenished by interior snowfall, and thus are contributing to rising global sea levels.
The studies differed significantly in estimates of how much water was being added to the oceans this way, but their authors both said that the work added credence to recent conclusions that global warming caused by humans was likely to lead to higher sea levels than previous studies had predicted.
The earlier projections presumed that snowfall over Antarctica, as well as Greenland, would increase as warming added moisture to the air, compensating for the losses of ice from crumbling or melting along coasts.
Several independent experts agreed with the new conclusions, saying they meshed both with more localized studies of trends in Antarctica and with evidence from warm spells before the last ice age.
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Have anything to say worthwhile Anderson. We know there is a war and it's difficult. It's time end the wars and bring the troops home. You aren't going to get a draft. There is very few al Qaeda in Iraq. One of them is in prison in Jordan. An Iraqi woman. Jordan. The war is unproductive in providing stability.
Try this award winning question, Anderson. "Is there improved stability in the Middle East post invasion into Iraq and how best is that achieved? Will an autonomous Provincial Iraq actually bring a more stable region?"
This program goes on and on and on with the same message.
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Pakistan gives front page news space to Global Warming. Pakistan. Can President Musharraf have an intelligence discussion about the HUGE problems the USA has if Bush doesn't even recognize Human Induced Global Warming. Yet. To the Pakistanis it is a very real problem that the USA is a huge contributor to.
Global temperature highest in Millennia 'Pakistan Times'
Monitoring Desk
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/09/27/top9.htm
WASHINGTON (US): The planet's temperature has climbed to levels not seen in thousands of years, warming that has begun to affect plants and animals, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Earth has been warming at a rate of 0.36 degree Fahrenheit per decade for the last 30 years, according to the research team led by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.That brings the overall temperature to the warmest in the current interglacial period, which began about 12,000 years ago.The researchers noted that a report in the journal Nature found that 1,700 plant, animal and insect species moved poleward at an average rate of about 4 miles per decade in the last half of the 20th century.
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You never stated what is on the mind of these Presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan. It helps to know what guests are stating as priorities and problems. Ignorance to other President's concerns is a measure of stupidity in circles of diplomacy.
Musharraf on Peace
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/09/27/editorial.htm
BEAMING an explicit message to the world, President Pervez Musharraf, in his extensive address to the 61st session of the UN General Assembly has called for resolution of volatile issues like Kashmir and Palestine, end to racial and religious discrimination against Muslims and ban on the ‘defamation of Islam’ to promote peace, justice and harmony in the world. He also attributed terrorism to the old conflicts and new campaigns of military intervention and advocated for pursuit of enlightened moderation as a way forward to deal with the scourge. As a matter of fact, the world is in turmoil as a result of injustice and discrimination against the Muslim world, exclusively at the hands of the mighty powers. Religious sensitivities of the Muslims are being hurt through attacks on Islam, one way or the other. Thus, it’s obviously a sheer folly to hope for peace amidst perpetration of injustice, intimidation and deprivation on the Muslims.
1038
You should stay on message that won you the Emmy's Anderson.
Feature story in a regular newscast: CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 for Charity Hospital.
Live coverage of a breaking story (long form): CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 for Starving in Plain Sight.
CBS and PBS lead winners of Emmy news awards (click on)
(Sep 27, 2006)
CBS and PBS each took five awards at the annual news and documentary Emmys, where PBS' Bill Moyers was presented with a lifetime achievement award. The winners:
Coverage of a breaking news story in a regular newscast: NBC Nightly News for Hurricane Katrina: Moment of Crisis.
Coverage of a continuing news story in a regular newscast: ABC's World News Tonight for Iraq: Where Things Stand.
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U.S. workers on foreign company payrolls decline for fourth year
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/26/business/NA_FIN_US_Foreign_Hiring.php
WASHINGTON Though outsourcing of jobs to other nations has stirred a political uproar, a slide in the number of U.S. workers on foreign companies' payrolls has gotten little notice.
The latest total, 5.12 million, is down 9.6 percent from 2000. That drop raises concerns that the United States could be losing its edge in the global competition to generate jobs.
In a new report looking at all 50 states, the number of workers in the United States employed by foreign companies dropped by 2.4 percent in 2004 to 5.12 million, marking the fourth consecutive annual decline.
Since hitting an all-time high of 5.66 million workers in 2000, foreign company hiring of Americans has fallen by 9.6 percent. That four-year performance contrasts with a 43.1 percent surge in the six years from 1994 to 2000.
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You know, Aaron Brown always stated "Are we on the same page?" If Bush isn't responsive in his policies to the same issues that his guests are there will be no effective communication. There was one mention about Kashmir by Mr. Bush before the dinner. Not one. Yet, this is one of the worst problems facing Pakistan and India. Unfortunately and maybe Karzai and Musharaff realize this. ...... No ..... they definately recognize this .... they are here as pawns in political goals of Bush. John Kerry did the right thing to extend a helping hand to Pakistan before any change in leadership in the USA. These leaders should realize they aren't the issue so much as Bush is.
I don't feel like reminiscing about bin Laden.
I'll read about the dinner in the New York Times. They have the best leaks.
enough.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Bin Laden Determined to Strike Within the United States
1002
It's interesting to have a USA Senator, once a First Lady, aware of the issues her husband faced. Now as a legislator, Hillary Rodham Clinton is a very unique woman. One would think as First Lady it would be enough of politics, but, Hillary keeps coming back. There is something about being a woman with a history of fighting for chidren's rights as Hillary did in her days with The Children's Defense Fund that keeps them involved.
http://search.eb.com/women/article-9095812
There is really no getting away from it, Hillary is a powerful person, not to mention a powerful woman. She has perspective even her spouse does not have. I don't believe Bill Clinton was ever a legislator. A Governor and President is different. Legislators seek support for issues pertinent to the people they represent in a different way. She does it well.
1013
There you go. Nancy Pelosi is right. Mr. Bush needs to speak truth to the people of this country. In the face of the newly released intelligence report I don't see the USA staying in Iraq. I don't consider the 'innocent face' of Karzai stating, "What are you going to do, let them come kill us again?" a proper answer to the question. He evaded the issues of Bush's incompetency to date in a very big way. President Karzai should answer the question, "How did it feel to be abandoned in Afghanistan when you realized a larger military effort could have secured Afghanistan that was witnessed in Iraq. Funding for reconstruction? Larger military force to end the presence of terrorists in his nation? Karzai never answered the primary issue that Americans are rightfully upset about? How does he view the continued presence of Osama bin Laden in the world? How does he feel about Iran's position regarding Bush's America and the Anti-Semitic remarks of Iran's president? How does he see his role given the fact he once tried to mend fences with Iran and the USA after he was returned as president of Afghanistan? There is a whole lot President Karzai can address to journalists in this country BUT does not. At least, President Musharraf is not afraid to speak his mind.
The Iraq nation is dissolving. It is a completely different circumstances in Iraq than Afghanistan. Iraq was never the issue of 911.
There is a huge power struggle between the ethnic groups in Iraq because of the long history of violence toward any one group at a time.
Iraq House debates autonomy
REUTERS
baghdad • Iraq’s parliament took tentative steps yesterday to resolve a deadlock over autonomous regions, an issue that has split its politicians on sectarian lines, as fresh clashes erupted in southern Baghdad.
Parliament named a committee to draft amendments to the constitution — a Sunni demand — and read out a bill to allow for regional autonomy, a key demand of powerful Shi’ite leaders. The two issues lie at the heart of Iraq’s sectarian divide and have hurt Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki’s efforts to end months of political paralysis and mounting violence. Many majority Shi’ites want to create an autonomous region in their oil-rich southern heartland.
Minority Sunnis fear this would siphon oil wealth from Baghdad and could tear the country apart, and want to amend the constitution to strengthen the powers of the central government. Kurds already have autonomy in the north and want their region to include the disputed oil city of Kirkuk. The parliamentary hearing was chaotic, with members shouting as the autonomy bill was read and renewed evidence of a split in the main Sunni bloc.
Violence continued. Police said Shi’ite militiamen had attacked a Sunni neighbourhood in southern Baghdad. Clashes ensued in which three people were killed and 10 wounded, and the withdrawing gunmen set three shops ablaze. A suicide car bomber killed two policemen in Jurf Al Sakhar. At least four bombs in Baghdad killed at least seven people. Bombers also struck in Kirkuk, Baquba and Latifiya, and mortars fell on houses in Mahmudiya, where police also found 12 bound and tortured corpses.
Iraqi parliament debates autonomy
Washington Post
1026
Everyone seems to think the USA is supposed to 'handle' the future of Iraq. "W"rong. I am confident the Iraq Central Authority finds it convenient to be the center of affection of Bush, Jr., but this legislative body has it's own ideas about the future of their people. I don't want to set up Iraq for portential human rights violations in the future as in Bosnia and Herzegovina where ethnic hatred absolutely killed so many. Bill Clinton participated in "The Dayton Accords" which settled the dispute and started separate governing provinces for the Serbs.
The problem is this, comparing and contrasting the violence of Bosnia and Iraq there are similarity in that in 1991 Bosnia immediately fell into war and crimes after splitting from Yugoslavia. I am sure Former President Clinton sees similarities in the issues and has made recommendations to Bush. I doubt sincerely anything but Bush's priorities matters.
If the ethnic groups of Iraq see peace within the autonomous states they have identified, they may be finding their own peace between each other; IF each find economies and security that compliment that division of sovereignty. I believe it is possible.
The question I would love for Former President Clinton to answer which no one ever asks, 'does he see parrallels between the Bosnia issues and Iraq's ethnic issues and does he see similar resolves as his Dayton Accords?
1043
Is no one paying attention to the storms still be spawned in the Atlantic or will they all go away, too?
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_east_loop-12.html
I suppose that one out there now isn't up to speed yet.
1051
You know I did notice today on Wolf's program how they adapted the introduction to match the one Aaron used to have called 'The Whip Around the World." Odd name I guess. But, it introduced everyone right up front. It was a nice preview. "Front Page Headline" is what it was considered and followed by Page Two and then Page Two and a Half and then Segment Papers and ..... well.... then the rest of the program.
Oh, yeah I added some questions to the Nancy Pelosi paragraph. I think they are great questions and the PROPER perspective of a failed war in Afghanistan.
enough
1054
It's interesting to have a USA Senator, once a First Lady, aware of the issues her husband faced. Now as a legislator, Hillary Rodham Clinton is a very unique woman. One would think as First Lady it would be enough of politics, but, Hillary keeps coming back. There is something about being a woman with a history of fighting for chidren's rights as Hillary did in her days with The Children's Defense Fund that keeps them involved.
http://search.eb.com/women/article-9095812
There is really no getting away from it, Hillary is a powerful person, not to mention a powerful woman. She has perspective even her spouse does not have. I don't believe Bill Clinton was ever a legislator. A Governor and President is different. Legislators seek support for issues pertinent to the people they represent in a different way. She does it well.
1013
There you go. Nancy Pelosi is right. Mr. Bush needs to speak truth to the people of this country. In the face of the newly released intelligence report I don't see the USA staying in Iraq. I don't consider the 'innocent face' of Karzai stating, "What are you going to do, let them come kill us again?" a proper answer to the question. He evaded the issues of Bush's incompetency to date in a very big way. President Karzai should answer the question, "How did it feel to be abandoned in Afghanistan when you realized a larger military effort could have secured Afghanistan that was witnessed in Iraq. Funding for reconstruction? Larger military force to end the presence of terrorists in his nation? Karzai never answered the primary issue that Americans are rightfully upset about? How does he view the continued presence of Osama bin Laden in the world? How does he feel about Iran's position regarding Bush's America and the Anti-Semitic remarks of Iran's president? How does he see his role given the fact he once tried to mend fences with Iran and the USA after he was returned as president of Afghanistan? There is a whole lot President Karzai can address to journalists in this country BUT does not. At least, President Musharraf is not afraid to speak his mind.
The Iraq nation is dissolving. It is a completely different circumstances in Iraq than Afghanistan. Iraq was never the issue of 911.
There is a huge power struggle between the ethnic groups in Iraq because of the long history of violence toward any one group at a time.
Iraq House debates autonomy
REUTERS
baghdad • Iraq’s parliament took tentative steps yesterday to resolve a deadlock over autonomous regions, an issue that has split its politicians on sectarian lines, as fresh clashes erupted in southern Baghdad.
Parliament named a committee to draft amendments to the constitution — a Sunni demand — and read out a bill to allow for regional autonomy, a key demand of powerful Shi’ite leaders. The two issues lie at the heart of Iraq’s sectarian divide and have hurt Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki’s efforts to end months of political paralysis and mounting violence. Many majority Shi’ites want to create an autonomous region in their oil-rich southern heartland.
Minority Sunnis fear this would siphon oil wealth from Baghdad and could tear the country apart, and want to amend the constitution to strengthen the powers of the central government. Kurds already have autonomy in the north and want their region to include the disputed oil city of Kirkuk. The parliamentary hearing was chaotic, with members shouting as the autonomy bill was read and renewed evidence of a split in the main Sunni bloc.
Violence continued. Police said Shi’ite militiamen had attacked a Sunni neighbourhood in southern Baghdad. Clashes ensued in which three people were killed and 10 wounded, and the withdrawing gunmen set three shops ablaze. A suicide car bomber killed two policemen in Jurf Al Sakhar. At least four bombs in Baghdad killed at least seven people. Bombers also struck in Kirkuk, Baquba and Latifiya, and mortars fell on houses in Mahmudiya, where police also found 12 bound and tortured corpses.
Iraqi parliament debates autonomy
Washington Post
1026
Everyone seems to think the USA is supposed to 'handle' the future of Iraq. "W"rong. I am confident the Iraq Central Authority finds it convenient to be the center of affection of Bush, Jr., but this legislative body has it's own ideas about the future of their people. I don't want to set up Iraq for portential human rights violations in the future as in Bosnia and Herzegovina where ethnic hatred absolutely killed so many. Bill Clinton participated in "The Dayton Accords" which settled the dispute and started separate governing provinces for the Serbs.
The problem is this, comparing and contrasting the violence of Bosnia and Iraq there are similarity in that in 1991 Bosnia immediately fell into war and crimes after splitting from Yugoslavia. I am sure Former President Clinton sees similarities in the issues and has made recommendations to Bush. I doubt sincerely anything but Bush's priorities matters.
If the ethnic groups of Iraq see peace within the autonomous states they have identified, they may be finding their own peace between each other; IF each find economies and security that compliment that division of sovereignty. I believe it is possible.
The question I would love for Former President Clinton to answer which no one ever asks, 'does he see parrallels between the Bosnia issues and Iraq's ethnic issues and does he see similar resolves as his Dayton Accords?
1043
Is no one paying attention to the storms still be spawned in the Atlantic or will they all go away, too?
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_east_loop-12.html
I suppose that one out there now isn't up to speed yet.
1051
You know I did notice today on Wolf's program how they adapted the introduction to match the one Aaron used to have called 'The Whip Around the World." Odd name I guess. But, it introduced everyone right up front. It was a nice preview. "Front Page Headline" is what it was considered and followed by Page Two and then Page Two and a Half and then Segment Papers and ..... well.... then the rest of the program.
Oh, yeah I added some questions to the Nancy Pelosi paragraph. I think they are great questions and the PROPER perspective of a failed war in Afghanistan.
enough
1054
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
How does a subject as serious as impeachment get turned into a political issue?
Anderson Cooper finds the leaked National Intelligence Estimate to be work of a political volly.
"W"rong Anderson.
It's about life and death and what international global enivronment is BEST for the United States of America.
Bush's International Theater is not good for promoting the longevity of Americans.
It isn't hard to figure out Anderson. The wars were supposed to make the USA and it's populous safer. It hasn't. This is NOT rocket science.
Anderson you have complete irreverence for life.
1014
MIchael, I am not interested in how well Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda are doing; I want to know how well the USA is secured from these idiots. There is every indication the man whom is president is incompetent. There is every indication the men in the White House have left our Homeland completely vulnerable.
"W"rong Anderson.
It's about life and death and what international global enivronment is BEST for the United States of America.
Bush's International Theater is not good for promoting the longevity of Americans.
It isn't hard to figure out Anderson. The wars were supposed to make the USA and it's populous safer. It hasn't. This is NOT rocket science.
Anderson you have complete irreverence for life.
1014
MIchael, I am not interested in how well Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda are doing; I want to know how well the USA is secured from these idiots. There is every indication the man whom is president is incompetent. There is every indication the men in the White House have left our Homeland completely vulnerable.
If I were Anderson Cooper I would want to know who leaked the information, if he doesn't already know, and why whomever it was FELT THE NECESSITY to warn the nation about the bumbling of this adminstration. Was the leaker(s) so scared they found relief in leaking information.
1020
The news secretary
ciommercials
Why don't you have Nancy Grace on Anderson? After all if anyone has no reverence for life, it's her. Pushing someone beyond the limits of tolerance when circumstances surrounding a missing child because a witch hunt of the mother. Regardless, of how she may or may not have been guilty in anyway, there should not be people killing themselves after being cross examined by a PUBLIC PROSECUTOR. If the mother was guilty she would never have to testify against herself anyway. This 'Cat Bird' seat Grace has a prosecutor's dream come true. They usually never have the chance to directly prosecute a defendant without the benefit of an attorney. When she spoke with Grace she expected a focus on the missing child and not on herself. Somehow anyone would expect the same thing. CNN has the wrong focus to attract viewers.
1027
Military recruiters don't believe in what they do. They only care about doing a job close to the end of their enlistment meeting recruitment numbers handed down by the military. Michael Moore has done nothing short of warning everyone off from military recruitment. The protestors that see recruiters as draconian demonstrate against them, regularly. This issue of rape is not surprising. I am wondering if the 'new' definition of rape such as that which is part of the terrorist interrogation standards according to Bush takes effect here or does it have to go back to the drawing board so that Bush's military can 'have at 'em' whenever they want?
1033
commercials
Darfur - osteoporosis is an interesting combination for a commercial segment.
1035
Clinton on America - Also known as "Throw out the Rule Book" by Bush.
No rules of war.
No rules of interrogation.
No rules in the United Nations.
No rules in spying on Americans.
No rules in impeachment.
No rules in protecting a criminal president after the fact such as Senator Spector and how is always comes to the rescue of the Oval Office, including Secret Committees to FIND A WAY to justify his lies to the nation and his illegal wiretapping.
No rules for military battlefields and the amount of personnel necessary to launch such invasions. Not enough military personnel in Afghanistan in 2001. Not enough military personnel at Tora Bora when Military Intelligence knew exactly where Bin Laden was. Not enough military personnel into Iraq.
No international rules on demeanor. Calling every nation with a difference with the USA, evil. Escalating the nuclear weapon cold war.
No rules in making statements about assisting the innocent such as Darfur.
No rules that actually find successful routes of deployment of 'strategically' precise weapons so allies can count on munititions when in the middle of advancement in Bush's War on Terror such as Israel with Hezbollah.
No rules when it comes to following through with agreements by the UN made with terrorists networks like Hezbollah to uphold those agreements including the return of abducted soldiers at the borders of Israel.
1046
Afghanistan was well executed? What propaganda this is. 20,000 troops to fight a war against a terrorist network that just downed towers, crashed planes even into the Pentagon and killed nearly 3000 and this bozo says it was well executed with a deployment of 20,000 trooops.
Right.
I am curious about something. Is there any books being published except the ones that blow smoke up your skirt?
1049
commercials
1051
Gergan - Bill Clinton is not angry. He put a Neocon interviewer in his place referring quite adeptly the issue of equity. I never watched the fiction mini-series about September 11th.
1053
Next on the enlightening show AC 360 - Down home clogging while building spin off the war. It's called boring.
enough
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Tonight's Cast - Bush, Mush and Hope for the Pope
1003
Bushy and Mushy together in the fight - Osama bin Laden enter stage right.
1007
Gary Bernstein's book is Jawbreaker - the people dead yet to be forsaken.
1011
Bounty is 25 million on 'bin' but for a blind cleric it's only ten.
1012
Commercials are the life blood, only for three minutes, just so Andy could.
1015
Recognition of Israel can be seen by Abbas, but blind and unfortunately in the case with Hamas.
1016
Victory is their's says Hezbollah by yet another blind cleric named Nasrallah.
1019
UPS and Verizon covering ground quickly so that success is on the horizon.
Robots to make a Hyundai while no account fees with Schwab make our day.
Headon and Activon handle our pain but these commercials are such a drain.
1023
Nasrallah attends a Beirut rally while southern Lebanon lies in piles of crushed wally.
1031
Circuit city has all the computers while coal technology remains nothing but CO2 polluters.
1032
A meeting of leaders is hope for the Pope while Muslim demonstrators insist they are not on Afghanistan dope.
1037
Freedom of speech should be in abundance while Islamic extremists are no longer among us.
1040
Religion plays pivotal roles while Muslims seek freedom to go to the polls.
1042
Commercials go on and on, but, I don't.
enough.
Shana Tova.
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